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Is clojure the newest popular-language-you-can-get-a-job-in? It's initial release was 2007. Rust (2010) (edit Kotlin (2011) perhaps), but point being there aren't many newer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_langua... That metric is subjective and arbitrary, but it's on my mind because my company is hiring for clojure developers (see my immediate comment history & apologies for the advertisement)…
Is clojure the newest popular-language-you-can-get-a-job-in? It's initial release was 2007. Rust (2010) (edit Kotlin (2011) perhaps), but point being there aren't many newer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_langua... That metric is subjective and arbitrary, but it's on my mind because my company is hiring for clojure developers (see my immediate comment history & apologies for the advertisement)…
> There is more to collections than lists. You can have instances of empty collections, some of which have literal support ([], {}, and ()). Thus there can be no sentinel empty collection value. Probably my favorite feature over common lisp. Combined with comma (,) being treated as whitespace (ie, use comma if you want to but you don't have to), makes typing out data structures in clojure a much more enjoyable proces…
In many ways I feel like Clojure is a better Lisp than Lisp itself. Syntactic niceties like support for vectors/maps/sets are, once you've gotten used to them, hard to do without. And although it's orthogonal to the syntax, I also appreciate its focus on immutability. I just with there was a Lisp like it that didn't run on the JVM.
In many ways I feel like Clojure is a better Lisp than Lisp itself. Syntactic niceties like support for vectors/maps/sets are, once you've gotten used to them, hard to do without. And although it's orthogonal to the syntax, I also appreciate its focus on immutability. I just with there was a Lisp like it that didn't run on the JVM.
There are a few, with varying degrees of distance from the JVM and varying degrees of similarity to Clojure.
- There's ClojureScript, which is Clojure transpiled to JavaScript.
- See also Lumo () and Planck ()
- There's Joker (https://github.com/candid82/joker) with a similar mission to Babashka, but commonly used as a linter.
- There's ClojureCLR (https://groups.google.com/g/clojure-clr) on the Common Language Runtime.
- There's Cloture (https://github.com/ruricolist/cloture), which is Clojure in Common Lisp.
- There's Clojerl (https://www.clojerl.org/), which is Clojure for the Erlang VM.
- There's Pixie (https://blog.goodstuff.im/pixie), with Clojure syntax, but compiling to native.
- There's Ferret (https://github.com/nakkaya/ferret>) which is Clojure transpiled to C++11.
- There are some Lisps that have borrowed Clojure's syntax:
- Janet
- Carp
Apologies for the formatting.
Never been able to install in macOS is one of the difference.
Never been able to install in macOS is one of the difference.
> There is more to collections than lists. You can have instances of empty collections, some of which have literal support ([], {}, and ()). Thus there can be no sentinel empty collection value. Probably my favorite feature over common lisp. Combined with comma (,) being treated as whitespace (ie, use comma if you want to but you don't have to), makes typing out data structures in clojure a much more enjoyable proces…
This isn’t really a thing, though: Common Lisp has built-in literal syntax for n-dimensional arrays and structs and libraries like fset provide literal syntax for Clojure-style immutable data structures.
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This isn’t really a thing, though: Common Lisp has built-in literal syntax for n-dimensional arrays and structs and libraries like fset provide literal syntax for Clojure-style immutable data structures.
Immutability by default is a world of difference from library support. I think pretty much every language has a library for it.
But, additionally, my point was that CL has literal representations for arbitrary data types, not that you can get immutable datastructures from a library.